Creating
You make a ton of stuff. In a short period of time. Because pregnant, frenetic women are more productive than when they’re postpartum and just hoping for more than 3 hours of sleep. After my post about how I’m actually doing great thriving at this stage, of course, the pride cometh before the fall, yesterday was one of those why do I stay home I’m a lawyer I could be talking with semi-rational people who don’t need time outs, threats, bribes, diaper changes, or corrective behavioral tips. Well, actually, many of those things I did do as a practicing attorney. Crap. Maybe this isn’t that different after all–aside from bribes & diapers and actual time-outs. Then I remember trying to survive pregnancy with a toddler. HAHAHAHAHAHA. So much easier than this! At any rate, I was ready for homicide or whatnot by the time my husband came home (late because of roads & buses being late). Thank goodness I had a craft night planned with some of my ladies. We inadvertently stayed almost three hours at our sweet hostess’ home! Blabbing about some very hilarious things (pregnant piddling? I brought that up), some very serious things (one friend’s mother passed recently and another’s father almost did), and delicious things like the blondies a friend brought, the amazing cookies our hostess made, and my Ghiradelli brownies from a mega box from Costco. A very tired, but emotionally and verbally validated me hit the hay, hoping today would be better. And it has…
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Do you remember me telling you that getting a serious facelift on our second floor/kids’ bathroom was on my bucket list before baby comes? Let’s do a side-by-side and see how it looks! There’s one thing I have yet to do–recover a stool–that I need advice on. Otherwise, I think we’re in business. Oh, and I feel like the wall paint color is too boring and either needs a stenciled cream something or other, or maybe scrap this color and go with wallpaper? Gimme your thoughts. We removed wallpaper, painted walls, painted wood work, scraped & repainted radiator, replaced lights, faucet, handles, curtains, shower light/fan, and threw in some new towels. My dad is amazing and did the hardest dirtiest parts. Because he’s the best. AA helped too, but we both agreed that Baba wins the award for handiest man ever. Old lights & faucet & wallpaper & eyelet curtains: Making way for the newsies: Love love love these lights. Then came the faucet. The one that was there didn’t feel in tune with our 1914 built home, and the beautiful subway tiles in this bath. So overstock.com came in handy and I found this gem for not-too-expensive! Porcelain handles–LOVE! Don’t mind the dirty part at rim. Ahhh… because I’m a dirty housewife. Don’t you just swoon with that arch? Now let’s talk hardware. These lovelies were a splurge & gift from my mom. They’re hefty and gorgeeeous. That’s the chair that needs to be recovered. Something wipeable or canvas…
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What does a dino blankie and communing with the Divine have in common? Well, maybe something for me. The lovely blog Mother Spirit invited me to guest post about how I nurture my mothering spirit. I was delighted to sit and think about all these profound thoughts. Only to come to the very simple notion that somehow my sewing is spiritual. Not very profound, but very real in my simple life. I wrote about why we start religion from the cradle in our house the other week, here, but this post is all about me and my nourishment of spirituality. Subscribe to her blog, and like her on facebook. And read my guest post here. Thanks, Mothering Spirit!
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